"The Four Horsemen"

[QuarkDriven]

All four are pretty main stream... they/they're debates and talks are what helped me give up my faith... I suppose I should give half the credit of that to the religious half of those debates/talks... Listening to them defend their religion made it clear that it was all nonsense..

Curious. Prominent atheists didn't play any role in my giving up faith. Religion, religious people and what little I know about scientific facts were sufficient to make me quit.

And even now I'm not the least bit interested in arguments for atheism. As I said, I like Dawkins because of his tongue in cheek attitude. But I never felt the need or any interest to read any of their books. Listening to them debating off and on, yes, but otherwise not really interested. I know who Hitchens was of course, but I never once heard him speak or read anything he wrote. But it seems he was rather left leaning, which makes him an all right guy in my book.

I sadly never gave religion much thought.. if someone asked, i would simply reply i was raised catholic and that would be the end of it... i dont recall exactly what i googled or youtubed to start looking into it but i definitely came across the names above... it wasnt so much the atheist's argument but the religious defense that made me open my eyes. The harder they tried defending it, the more i was like, what?!? and in a nutshell, thats how i became an atheist at 31 years old...

with that said, it is interesting to see the different points of view on athiesm... Dawkins of course coming from an evolutionary stand point.. Hitchens just despising religion, Krauss from a physicists POV....